Artificial intelligenceJapan's SoftBank to sound out Apollo, Brookfield on Stargate funding
Tech group will invest $19bn of its own money in AI project company
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks about the Stargate project at the White House alongside President Donald Trump, Oracle's Larry Ellison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Jan. 21. © Reuters
MASAYUKI SHIKATA
January 25, 2025 05:01 JST
TOKYO -- Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group plans to contact big investment firms including Apollo Global Management about fundraising for a U.S. artificial intelligence project proposed by President Donald Trump, Nikkei has learned.